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Palliative Care: Bringing Comfort
Palliative care focuses on improving a patient's quality of life by improving the symptoms of his or her illness, such as pain, shortness of breath, and difficulty sleeping. It's used with a variety of ailments, including cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney failure, or congestive heart failure.
Pap Tests for Older Women
Older women still need health checkups and screening tests, including regular gynecological exams.
Parenting Déjà vu: Raising Your Grandchildren
About 4.9 million children live in households headed by grandparents. These are commonly called "grandfamilies" or "second families." Two out of three of your fellow grandparents handling this responsibility are older than 50, and the children are often under age 6.
Parents: Check Toys for Lead
You may have heard reports about lead paint causing recalls of children’s toys. While federal officials and health experts work to fix the problem, what can you do to keep your kids safe? First, you can check your child's toys against those listed as being recalled due to lead issues.
Parents-to-Be Must Communicate
Few parents-to-be receive training for the much more challenging and long-term tasks--becoming good parents and remaining close and loving partners in the face of new stresses and strains as their family grows.
Peach Berry Crisp
Fresh peaches and blueberries are nestled under a topping flavored with ginger and lemon.
Pear and Quinoa Salad
A salad that's packed with protein.
Pecan-Crusted Baked Tilapia with Cherry Lemon Balsamic Sauce
The sauces gives this nutty fish a distinctive zing.
Peewee Pizzas
Peewee pizzas are easy for you to make on your own when you get home from school.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Pelvic inflammatory disease or PID is an infection of a woman’s reproductive tract. Scar tissue grows between internal organs leading to ongoing pelvic pain. It can also lead to ectopic pregnancy.
Perimenopause
Perimenopause is the time around menopause when your body begins to change. You become less fertile and hormone levels fluctuate.
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome and Cancer
People with this syndrome have dark moles around the mouth, nose, and eyes, as well as multiple polyps in the intestines.
Peyronie Disease
Peyronie disease causes hard, flat plaque to form under the skin on the tissue of the penis. The plaque often starts as an inflammation that may develop into scar tissue. It can cause pain and a sharp curve in the penis during erections.
Phenytoin
This test checks the level of the seizure medicine phenytoin (Dilantin) in your blood.
Physical Therapist
Physical therapists focus on restoring a person's movement (mobility) and function, and preventing further disability.
Pills: Make Them Go Down Easy
Sometimes a pill gets stuck. That tends to happen at the ring of muscles at the top of the esophagus.
Pineapple Smoothies
Just 3 ingredients: pineapple chunks, vanilla yogurt, and ice. Quick and yummy!
Planning a Pregnancy
Planning ahead and taking care of yourself before becoming pregnant is the best thing you can do for you and your baby.
Planning the Care of Your Aging Parents
Many children of aging parents wait until there's a crisis, and then they're left scrambling for mediocre options. Here are some tips to start planning ahead.
Planning to Quit Smoking
You may have been thinking about quitting smoking. Or your healthcare provider may have told you that you need to quit. Only you can decide if and when you are ready to quit.
Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac Rash
Detailed information on poison ivy, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Polio (Poliomyelitis)
Poliomyelitis is commonly called polio. It is an infectious disease. It is caused by 3 types of poliovirus. Polio is easily spread from person to person. The poliovirus is a virus that causes paralysis. But most people who are infected with polio have no symptoms and a few have mild symptoms.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
PCOS is a common hormone problem in women of childbearing age. Women with PCOS may not ovulate, and have abnormal hormone levels. They may experience missed or irregular periods, excess hair growth and weight gain around the belly.
Poor Oral Health Is a Problem for People with Diabetes
Diabetes is nothing to smile about. The disease can cause serious damage to your body. It can even harm your teeth.
Pork Carnitas
Break out the slow cooker for this warm, comforting dish.
Postpartum Care
Detailed information on caring for the mother physically and emotionally following childbirth, including information on postpartum depression
Postpartum Thyroiditis
Postpartum thyroiditis happens when a person's thyroid becomes inflamed after delivering a baby, or having a miscarriage or abortion. It may first cause your thyroid to be overactive. But over time it leads to an underactive thyroid. This affects a small percentage of pregnant people.
Potential Emergency Situations and Conditions
Detailed information on potential emergency situations and conditions, including animal bites, rabies, cat scratch disease, appendicitis, asthma attack, chest pain, heart attack, dehydration, heat stroke, fever, food allergy, food-drug interaction, frostb
Potentially Harmful Remedies for Migraines
Some herbs may interact dangerously with migraine medicines. Read on to learn more.
Prediabetes Quiz
Take this quiz to find out how to decrease your risk of developing diabetes.
Pregnancy
Detailed information on pregnancy and childbirth, including information on birth statistics, pregnancy planning, preconception care, prenatal care, pregnancy discomforts, pregnancy tests, pregnancy risks, pregnancy warning signs, labor and delivery, breas
Pregnancy Discomforts: When to Call the Doctor
Congratulations—you’re pregnant! The next nine months may bring some uncomfortable changes to your body.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a much more severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). It may affect women who are able to get pregnant. It’s a severe and chronic medical condition that needs attention and treatment. Lifestyle changes and sometimes medicines can help manage symptoms.
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a group of emotional and physical symptoms many women have in the days before their period starts. Lifestyle changes and sometimes medicines can help manage symptoms.
Preparing for Your Best Year of Fitness
Design a yearlong fitness plan to make sure that you have effective lifestyle changes in place.
Prescription Drug Addiction
Three kinds of prescription medicines are potentially addictive: opioids, tranquilizers, and stimulants. Here's what you should know.
Prevent Injury Around Barbecue Grills
Because barbecue grills are operated in a casual, relaxed atmosphere, they tend to be taken for granted. And that can lead to serious injury.
Preventing a Second Heart Attack
Most Americans survive a first heart attack. By taking action, however, they can significantly reduce their chances for a second heart attack.
Preventing Eye Strain at the Computer
If you spend hours each day working at a computer screen or other devices with screens, you may suffer from symptoms of eye strain. Eye strain is a common problem, but you can take steps to reduce your discomfort.
Preventing Household Poisonings
Here are tips to help prevent poisoning in your home.
Preventing Sports Injuries
Read on for helpful steps to take to prevent sports injuries.
Prevention of Heart Disease Starts in Childhood
You may think of heart disease as a problem for adults, not your young children. But diet and exercise habits started in childhood can begin a lifetime of heart health, or a lifetime of heart damage.
Primer- GHB, a Club Drug
Learn more about GHB, a dangerous and addictive illegal drug. GHB produces a feeling of euphoria and hallucinations. It is popular with teens who go to all-night dance parties.
Primer: A Parent's Guide to Inhalant Abuse
Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that produce mind-altering effects. Knowing the facts about inhalants can help you protect your children.
Primer: Smokeless Tobacco
Many people think using smokeless tobacco is safer than smoking. But just because there's no smoke, doesn't mean it's safe.
Prostate Cancer: Coping with Your Diagnosis
When a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer, it's normal for him to feel scared, angry, or depressed.
Protect Kids from Lead Poisoning
Although lead poisoning is often associated with the paint of older homes, children may be exposed to lead if the soldering on water pipes is new. In fact, lead may be found in many parts of a home, including soil, food, or even the air.
Protect Your Child from Medical Errors
A medical error can occur when something that was planned for medical care doesn't work, or when the wrong plan was used in the first place.
Protect Your Hearing on the Job
Understand what kind of noise level is dangerously high on the job—and how best to protect your hearing.
Protecting Yourself Against Medical Errors
Every year, thousands of Americans die because of medical errors. Such errors can occur anywhere in the health-care system and can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment and lab reports.
Psoriasis
Detailed information on psoriasis, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Psoriasis Quiz
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that affects millions of Americans. Although it can affect people of any age, it occurs mostly in young adults. Find out more about this disease by taking this quiz, based on information from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases, the American Academy of Dermatology, and the National Psoriasis Foundation.
Pulmonary Emphysema
Emphysema is a chronic lung condition in which the air sacs (alveoli) may be destroyed, narrowed, collapsed, stretched, or overinflated. Pulmonary emphysema is part of a group of lung diseases called COPD. Here's what you need to know.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
A pulmonary rehab program can help people with long-term (chronic) lung diseases. Here's what you need to know.
Put a Stop to Nerve Injuries Called Stingers
Stingers occur when the shoulder and head go in opposite directions, the head is moved quickly to one side, or the area above the collarbone is hit.
Put Peer Pressure in Its Place
During the teen years, peer pressure can be very strong. It can push kids to do things that they don't really want to do. This pressure can come from friends or other kids at school. But parents can counter it, if they're ready to help.